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Vernon Photo Gallery 1978

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Fresh arrivals, mostly duffel bags, but some suitcases and instrument cases, (Cam Leblond)

 

girls from Echo Company formed up in front of their barracks along the edge of Sicily Square (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Sinclair Burgis (Elizabeth Wood)

 

unidentified Sgt (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Sgt Elizabeth Wood (Elizabeth Wood)

 

The band parading on Dieppe Square late evening, the sun is just minutes from setting. Possibly Sunset service, note good group of Sea Cadets amongst the band's brass and Reed band (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Friday night parade or more than likely Sunset Parade, 2nd last week of camp. Sunset parade is held on 11 Aug of this year under a partly cloudy sky and more moderate 23c compared to low 30s a few days earlier.  (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Unidentified staff, possibly Bruce Holgate at far right wearing Rocky Mountain Ranger badge and red beret. Being a callout NCO is this time meant certain unique uniform and responsibilities. While still technically cadets in the home units and what ever rank appointment the held, they would once on the ground in Vernon become Reserve Army NCOs with pay and duties assigned. The uniform stayed home-unit affiliated but shed all cadet accoutrements, nametags and rank was issued in regular force styles. Very little distinction was made between a 17 "cadet" callout from the South Sask Regt cadet corps in Weyburn or a 24 year old Corporal from the militia British Columbia Regt in downtown Vancouver (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Company Staff dinner, end of camp reward for a long summer, 8 or 9 weeks for a callout NCO and anywhere from 9 weeks to 4 months for officers and regular army NCOs. There was an enormous job to make a camp like Vernon functionally effectively and efficiently. (Elizabeth Wood)

 

unidentified cadets, Echo Company (Elizabeth Wood)

 

note fuel oil tank in background. The barracks went from coal stove heaters on the barracks floor for heating water in winter and during WWII to heat the barracks themselves. Later perhaps just as the camp opened for cadets in 1949 they switched to fuel oil, propane gas occurred in 1978 and 79, natural gas eventually arrived on the camp in the early 1990s. (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Maj Enid Caropenter (2), Lt Jan McCarthy (3) (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Sgt Elizabeth Wood Cpl Dedrie Lalame (Elizabeth Wood)

 

(Elizabeth Wood)

 

unidentified cadet (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Maj Enid Carpenter (Elizabeth Wood)

 

Jr. Ranks Mess, possibly Frank Varga on left (Charlotte Wolf)

 

unknown member, MP Section (Charlotte Wolf)

 

Cadet Al Saunders and unknown cadet at the door of D10, our home, 1978. The D lines were being refurbished that spring, work had to stop when we arrived in early July, by the following summer, the buildings were sheathed in red stained planks. (Al Saunders)

 

Cadets Francois Arseneault and Brad Becker in front of D10, Brad was a member of 2551 Cdn AB Regt Cadet Corps and was goofing off wearing one of the highlanders' Glengarry, one of them in turn would wear his maroon beret. The occasional brilliant stroke of humour when the two of them would try to pass it off on parade. Hilarious. Pranksters.   (Al Saunders)

 

Polishing boots in the cool shade of D10, 1978 possibly around July 25, 34c and very hot. One of those personal experiences which is hard to explain but when it happens to you get it. The NCO, in this photo Cpl Lauzama shares court with the rest of us, telling us what it was like when he took CL three or four years earlier. In all certainty he had the same ritual occur for him, another NCO who took a CL course in 1970. The stories were as frequent as rounds down range on FN qualifying days. (Dale Dickie)

 

D10, D Coy's barracks, sadly demolished in 1995. If only there were those around who can tell stories of like in and around these barracks, especially the early years in WWII and the early 50s. (Dale Dickie)

 

D10 interior, home to 13 Platoon D Coy, Perry Murray sitting on barracks box at left, Ferguson sitting on bunk, face partly obscured by bunk, Danny Butt standing at right. Note the hat shelf behind the bunks with ankle boots & wash basins, one barracks box per cadet, no high lockers, uniforms hung on the coat hooks behind the bunks, and nothing stolen. Overhead lighting those wonderful harsh fluorescents tubes.  (Dale Dickie)

 

Lt Dale Dickie, Platoon Commander 13 Platoon, D Coy. Always busy making sure everything was happening in our platoon, a good mentor to many of us. (Al Saunders)

 

'Delta' the dog. Delta was a stray Labrador Retriever that adopted 13 platoon during the summer 1978, he stayed with us until the end of summer when the platoon commander, Lt Dale Dickie, took him home. One of those interesting stories that bears more details  (Dale Dickie)

 

Cpl Brian Horn and Cpl Martin Nickerson on Horn's Mustang. It was common practice for call-out NCOs, what is today called staff cadets, to drive their cars to camp. Call out NCOs were given much more responsibilities and therefore for latitude. (Al Saunders)

 

Lunch hour meal line up at G11 mess hall,  (Al Saunders)

 

A platoon of girls returning from EX Rambler, the final stretch was always the best, the camp and warm showers were just ten minutes away, this platoon led by Lt Karen Stevenson. G11 and G20 in background. G11 mess hall served only 2 1/2 companies that summer, Charlie and Delta as well as male Band cadets breakfast and supper, the female band cadets ate lunch here as well by virtue of daily band lectures in the K-lines.  (Dale Dickie)

 

EX Tyro, A day long, problem solving, group dynamic training exercise, here putting up a Bell Tent. In D Coy's case a hot day. (Al Saunders)

 

EX Tyro, the jeep recovery portion of the exercise. (Al Saunders)

 

Cpl Dugan, D Coy. In the background are deuce and a halfs with canoe frames in the vehicle compound.  (Al Saunders)

 

Friday Night Parade or Sunset Parade 1978, Drum Major Bill Edwards leading the band (Ed Liukaitis)

 

 

Same parade, Drum Major Randy Fiedler leading the Corps of Drums, Scott Horn right marker and lead stick. Note the NCOs (today they would be staff cadets) in workdress uniform along the back of the parade square standing by to pick up any unfortunate cadet that would drop in the heat. (Ed Liukaitis)

 

Friday night Parade, Col Beer aboard the inspection jeep with the RO. (Cam Leblond)

 

Sherilyn Buck, 72 SH of C RC(Army)CC, Vancouver, BC, 1978. Sherilyn in 1979 would be one of the first female RPs (Regimental Police) on the camp as a callout corporal. (Cam Leblond)

 

Cadets entertained by performers and crew of visiting a HMRNZS destroyer. (Cam Leblond)

 

Cadets entertained by performers and crew of visiting a HMRNZS naval destroyer. (Cam Leblond)

 

Cadets entertained by performers and crew of visiting a HMRNZS destroyer. (Cam Leblond)

 

A member of the Vernon Golf & Country Club and Col Jake Beer hold the Leblond Trophy. The trophy has been competed for every summer since 1953. (Cam Leblond)

 

Cpl Sharpe and Cpl Nickerson, D Coy NCOs in Penticton during the Peach Festival Parade. (Al Saunders)

 

Taras Bolin and Grant Smith in Penticton during the Peach Festival Parade. (Al Saunders)

 

Goddard fooling around in Penticton during the Peach Festival Parade. (Al Saunders)

 

Al Saunders in Penticton during the Peach Festival Parade. (Al Saunders)

 

Ferguson fooling around in Penticton during the Peach Festival Parade. (Al Saunders)

 

While the Brass and Reed component of the band was in Penticton with D Coy for the Pentiction Peach Festival Parade, the Pipes & Drums traveled to Victoria for the Royal Highnesses Visit. Prince Philip and Prince Andrew visited BC as part of a tour which included the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. (DND)

 

 

While the Brass and Reed component of the band was in Penticton with D Coy for the Pentiction Peach Festival Parade, the Pipes & Drums traveled to Victoria for the Royal Highnesses Visit. Prince Philip and Prince Andrew visited BC as part of a tour which included the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. (DND)

 

While the Brass and Reed component of the band was in Penticton with D Coy for the Pentiction Peach Festival Parade, the Pipes & Drums traveled to Victoria for the Royal Highnesses Visit. Prince Philip and Prince Andrew visited BC as part of a tour which included the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. (DND)

 

While the Brass and Reed component of the band was in Penticton with D Coy for the Pentiction Peach Festival Parade, the Pipes & Drums traveled to Victoria for the Royal Highnesses Visit. Prince Philip and Prince Andrew visited BC as part of a tour which included the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. (DND)

 

Dieppe Square, Friday night parade or grad parade practice (Cam Leblond)